Parent-infant relationships: starting conversations (practitioner guide)
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer鈥檚 relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
Applies to England
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This guidance provides 3 conversation prompts for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer鈥檚 relationship with their baby.
It also sets out a 3-step framework for using them to help identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
皇冠体育app prompts are intended for use by a range of frontline roles including:
- health visitors
- midwives
- nursing associates
- family support workers
- social workers
皇冠体育app guidance has been developed to help implement the recommendation, set out in聽皇冠体育app best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days聽in March 2021, for effective mental health support for parents and carers to develop a secure bond with their baby to be integrated into the universal offer to every family.
It has been developed as part of the joint Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care聽Family Hubs and Start for Life programme.